Deaths in May 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 1966.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

May 1966[]

1[]

• Albert Arnal, Valencian pilotari (b. 1913)
• Lee Tung Foo, American actor (b. 1875)
• Harold A. Henry, American newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1895)

2[]

• Bill Amery, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
• Bernice Fisher, American civil rights activist (b. 1916)
• Agostinho Fortes Filho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1901)
• Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen, Dutch paleontologist (b. 1884)
• Percy Kahn, English pianist and composer (b. 1880)
• Torsten Kumfeldt, Swedish water polo player, medalist at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
• Jack London, Guyana-born British athlete, bronze medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1905)

3[]

• Alan Don, English Anglican priest, Dean of Westminster during Elizabeth II's coronation (b. 1885)
• John Gaddy, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• George Lomer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1904)

4[]

• Mick Anthony, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
• Timothy Bevington, English and Canadian cricketer (b. 1881)
• Wojciech Brydziński, Polish actor (b. 1877)
• Bob Elliott, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• Atulkrishna Ghosh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1890)
• Adam Królikiewicz, Polish horseman, bronze medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1894)

5[]

• S. K. Gurunathan, Indian sports journalist (b. 1908)
• George Racey Jordan, American military officer (b. 1898)
• Josiah K. Lilly Jr., American businessman (b. 1893)

6[]

7[]

• Lucy Grant Cannon, American religious leader (b. 1880)
• Hamilton Corbett, American football player (b. 1888)
• Leonard Deadwyler, American killed by police (b. c. 1941)
• Carlos Luis Fallas, Costa Rican writer (b. 1909)
• Walter Sherman Gifford, American corporate executive (AT&T) and diplomat (ambassador to the United Kingdom) (b. 1885)
• Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet (b. 1909)

8[]

• Stefan Anderson, Swedish industrialist, journalist and watchmaker (b. 1878)
• Elisha T. Barrett, American politician from New York, member of the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate (b. 1902)
• Harry Anson Finney, American professor of accounting (b. 1886)
• Joseph Anthony Gray, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (b. 1884)
• Cam Malfroy, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1909)
• Erich Pommer, German film producer (b. 1889)

9[]

• , American oilman (b. 1885)
• Flame Delhi, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• Daniel O. Hastings, American politician, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1874)

10[]

• Erich Engel, German film and theatre director (b. 1891)
• Antonio Magarotto, Italian educator (b. 1891)

11[]

• Hilary A. Bush, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (b. 1905)
• Sir Herbert Butcher, 1st Baronet, English politician, MP (b. 1901)
• John James Carrick, American-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1873)
• Henry S. Caulfield, American politician, Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
• Rolf Hofmo, Norwegian politician (b. 1898)
• Thomas Hughes Jones, Welsh poet (b. 1895)
• Alfred Wintle, British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897)

12[]

• Stephen Campbell, Guyanese politician, MP (b. 1897)
• Bruce Eddis, English cricketer (b. 1883)
• Anna Langfus, Polish-French author (b. 1920)
• Sadie Macdonald, Australian-born New Zealand nurse (b. 1886)

13[]

• Henrik Adam Due, American-born Norwegian violinist (b. 1891)

14[]

• Joseph Williams Armstrong, English footballer (b. 1892)
• Tom Connolly, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• Irv Constantine, American football player (b. 1907)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet (b. 1880)

15[]

• Kathryn Forbes, American writer (b. 1908)
• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, President of El Salvador (assassinated) (b. 1882)
• Fritz Jack, German fencer at the 1908, 1912 and 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1879)
• Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress (b. 1932)

16[]

• Adm. William Carr, English-born Australian admiral (b. 1883)
• Eddie Casey, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
• Gen. Merritt B. Curtis, American brigadier general and politician (b. 1892)
• Robert Willard Hodgson, American academic (b. 1893)
• Albert Jelley, New Zealand cricket umpire (b. 1894)
• Johnny MacGregor, Australian rules footballer (b. 1889)

17[]

• Vahram Alazan, Soviet Armenian poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936 (b. 1903)
• Deng Tuo, Chinese writer (b. c. 1911)
• Thomas Harper Goodspeed, American botanist (b. 1887)
• Olav Kjelbotn, Norwegian cross-country skier, competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics (b. 1898)

18[]

• Paul Althaus, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1888)
• Punk Berryman, American football player and coach (b. 1892)
• Paul Joseph Chartier, Canadian would-be bomber of the House of Commons (b. 1921)
• Lee Gooch, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• Panchanan Maheshwari, Indian botanist (b. 1904)
• Korokī Mahuta, New Zealand Māori King (b. 1906_

19[]

• Theodore F. Green, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator (b. 1867)
• Horrie Jose, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)

20[]

• Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian, British mental health worker (b. 1899)
• Carlos Arruza, nicknamed "El Ciclón" ("the cyclone"), Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920)
• Ermin Garcia, Filipino journalist (b. 1921)

21[]

• Henry Balding Lewis, American general during World War II (b. 1889)
• , American actor (b. 1890)
• Lady Dorothy Macmillan, British wife of the prime minister (b. 1900)

22[]

• John Byers, American architect (b. 1875)
• William Dickson, English-born Australian politician (b. 1893)
• Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• Arnold Hauser, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• Charles Alvin Jones, American judge, federal appeals judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (b. 1887)

23[]

• Charles Brand, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (b. 1871)
• Sam Cooke, Australian rules footballer (b. 1883)
• Hubert Creekmore, American poet and author (b. 1907)
• Louis-Charles Damais, French Orientalist (b. 1911)
• Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
• Dimitrios Geraniotis, Greek artist (b. 1871)
• Jacko Heaslip, Irish cricketer (b. 1899)
• Lazarus Joseph, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (b. 1891)

24[]

• Henri Barbé, French Communist and collaborator with Nazi Germany (b. 1902)
• Jim Barnes, English golf champion (b. 1886)
• Pierre de Lagarde Boal, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua and to Bolivia (b. 1895)
• Alexandru Cazaban, Romanian writer (b. 1872)
• Sir Herbert Dowbiggin, British Inspector General of Police of Ceylon (b. 1880)
• Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (b. 1885)
• Niaz Fatehpuri, Indian-born Pakistani writer (b. 1884)
• Ove Frederiksen, Danish tennis player, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
• Theresa Garnett, British suffragist (b. 1888)
• Hans Hansen, German architect (b. 1889)
• Gen. Nawab Sir Sadeq Mohammad Khan V, Nawab of Bahawalpur State (b. 1904)

25[]

• William Acorn, Canadian automobile dealer and politician; member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (b. 1915)
• André Baugé, French opera and operetta singer and film actor (b. 1893)
• Salvatore Cioffi, a.k.a. Lokanatha, Italian Buddhist missionary (b. 1897)
• Fred Jones, New Zealand politician, Minister of Defence during World War II (b. 1884)
• Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (b. 1890)

26[]

• Don Castle, American actor (b. 1917)
• Elizabeth Dilling, American anti-communist and antisemitic activist (b. 1894)
• Edmond T. Gréville, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)

27[]

• Vic Buchanan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1899)
• Herbert Körner, German cinematographer (b. 1902)

28[]

• Simon Ericsson, Swedish rower, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
• George Garrett, British labour activist (b. 1896)
• Harry Haraldsen, Norwegian cyclist and speed skater, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Winter Olympics (b. 1911)
• Edward Harrington, Australian poet (b. 1895)

29[]

• James Woolf, British film producer (b. 1919)
• Ignace Lepp, Estonian-born French priest and writer (b. 1909)
• Duncan Alexander Eliott Mackintosh, Scottish clan chief (b. 1884)

30[]

• Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish artist and sculptor (b. 1894)
• Vladimir Alafuzov, Soviet admiral (b. 1901)
• Oscar Walter Cisek, Romanian writer (b. 1897)
• Christian Mahler, German Communist activist (b. 1905)

31[]

• Gen. William H. Blanchard, United States Air Force general (b. 1916)
• Dorothy Kelly, American actress (b. 1894)

References[]